Victor Hugo | Depuis six mille ans la guerre / For six thousand years the war

For six thousand years the war

Pleasing the quarrelsome peoples,

And God wastes his time doing

The stars and the flowers.

Francisco Goya | Third of May, 1808 | Museo del Prado

Emily Dickinson | L'estate è finita / The Summer is dying

The morns are meeker than they were,

The nuts are getting brown,

The berry's cheek is plumper,

The rose is out of town.

Igor Medvedev

Vera Kober, 1986 | Abstract painter

Vera Kober was born and raised up in difficult periods of collapse during the former USSR in family of musicians.

She studied fine art in school in Ukraine and end it in 1999 but her wish to pursue art education in college was not possible due to challenges of moving to another country with the family.

But Kober continued painting where her soul breathes and love flourishes in the face of difficulties.

André Lombardi, 1959 | Cityscape painter

André Lombardi was born in São Paulo.

He began his activities in 1977, participating in painting and drawing courses.

In 1981, he entered the Faculdade Armando Álvares Penteado, where completed the Fine Arts course in 1986.

During his university period he studied with several artists - Nelson Lerner, Ubirajara Ribeiro, Vlavianos, Antônio Carelli and J. Moraes - also participating in several collective exhibitions on the FAAP campus.

Zhao Xiaoli, 1990 | Pop Surrealist painter

Zhao Xiaoli 赵小黎 is a trend artist based in Xiamen who has attracted widespread attention on social media platforms both in China and internationally.

Using short video as an innovative way to communicate the creative process to a mass audience, she is the first female art influencer in the world to reach over 10 million followers.

Her work mostly explores the emotions and confusions of growing up as a woman, and seeks a unique form of self-expression through the fusion of oil painting and moving images.

Joseph Henry Sharp | Tao Society artist

Joseph Henry Sharp (September 27, 1859 - August 29, 1953) was an American painter and a founding member of the Taos Society of Artists, of which he is considered the "Spiritual Father".

Sharp was one of the earliest European-American artists to visit Taos, New Mexico, which he saw in 1893 with artist John Hauser.

He painted American Indian portraits and cultural life, as well as Western landscapes.

Clodoaldo Martins, 1987 | Genre painter

Clodoaldo Martins was born in Agulha, a small town in the Fernando Prestes district, in the state of São Paulo - Brazil.

While still young, at the age of nine, Clodoaldo was already very aware of his vocation: painting.

He started drawing and, at the age of 13, encouraged by his parents, Clodoaldo took up a course with drawing teacher Luis Dotto in the neighboring town of Catanduva.

It was there that the young local talents concentrated.

Elisabeth Chaplin | Post-impressionist painter

Élisabeth Chaplin (17 October 1890, Fontainebleau, France - 28 January 1982, Fiesole, Italy) was a French/Tuscan painter in the Nabis style.

She is known for her portraiture and Tuscan landscapes, most of which reside in the Pitti Palace’s Gallery of Modern Art collection in Florence.

She has two self-portraits in the Vasari Corridor collection.

Oleg Aradushkin, 1951 | Impressionist painter

Oleg Afanasievich Aradushkin / Олег Афанасьевич Арадушкин is known in Russia and abroad as a distinguished and original master working in easel painting and graphic art.

He was born in Podolsk, Moscow Region in 1951.

He graduated from the Moscow State Academy Art College in Memory of the Year of 1905 and Gerasimov State Institute of Cinematography.

As an artist-director Oleg Aradushkin was involved in the creation of a number of feature films.

In 1977 he became a member of the Union of Artists.